[Taxacom] New species of the future

Tue Oct 29 15:01:19 CDT 2013

Hi Robert,

The ICZN does not require any Latin correctness, only that the nomina are
"pronounceable".  I copy here the relevant part of article 11.3, which
deals with derivation:

"It may be an arbitrary combination of letters providing this is formed to
be used as a word."

Hence, there is no need for an emendation (sensu stricto).

This is one of many compatibility issues we will have to eventually deal
when nomenclature is unified -- it will have to be at some point.

On a personal note, I do sympathize with your view and would like to see
more people care about how nomina are derived.

Best,

Dan

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On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Robert Mill <R.Mill at rbge.ac.uk> wrote:

> Impressive stuff, except for one important and very basic thing - the
> authors have neglected to check that  their epithet was spelled  correctly.
> It isn't - it should be cavernicola, not "cavernicolus".- All Latin
> epithets ending in -cola denoting the habitat of the plant or animal are
> spelled that way regardless of whether the genus is masculine, feminine or
> neuter because the ending -cola  is treated as a noun in apposition and
> therefore it is indeclinable. You cannot write "cavernicolus" or
> "cavernicolum", or anything else -colus or -colum. At least not in botany
> because Art. 23.5 of the ICN (Melbourne Code) says that "-colus" and
> "-colum" endings are to be treated as correctable errors, to -cola. There
> is an accompanying Example: "Ex. 8. When Blanchard proposed Rubus
> “amnicolus”, it was a correctable error for R. amnicola Blanch. (1906)".
>
> I trust that Biodiversity Data Journal will publish the necessary
> correction in due course, assuming that the ICZN also requires that
> incorrect endings such as -colus be corrected.
>
> The real point I am making is that before all the gee-whizz technology and
> other stuff goes into any taxonomic paper, its authors must first make sure
> that the epithets of their new taxa are correctly formed. That and
> compliance with all the necessary Articles to validate their name under the
> Code they are working with are fundamental - everything else is icing on
> the cake.  (Very nice icing in this case.) Referees and editors must also
> check that simple basic errors like this do not get past the review process
> but are corrected before publication.
>
> Best wishes, Robert
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:
> taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Lyubomir Penev
> Sent: 29 October 2013 10:43
> To: Taxa com
> Subject: [Taxacom] New species of the future
>
> *Eupolybothrus cavernicolus*, a cave-dwelling centipede discovered in a
> remote karst region of Croatia, has become the first new eukaryotic species
> described with fully sequenced transcriptomic profile, DNA barcoding ,
> detailed anatomical X-ray micro-tomography (micro-CT), and a movie of the
> living specimen, all this in addition to the conventional morphological
> description, photos and SEM images.
> This, most data-rich species description, represents also the first
> biodiversity project that joins the ISA (Investigation-Study-Assay)
> Commons, that is an approach created by the genomic and molecular biology
> communities to store and describe different data types collected in the
> course of a multidisciplinary study.
>
> Details are available through the following links:
>
> Original article:*Eupolybothrus cavernicolus* Komerički & Stoev sp. n.
> (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae): the first eukaryotic species
> description combining transcriptomic, DNA barcoding and micro-CT imaging
> data <http://biodiversitydatajournal.com/articles.php?id=1013>
>
> GigaScience editorial: Biodiversity research in the “big data” era: *
> GigaScience* and Pensoft work together to publish the most data-rich
> species description <http://www.gigasciencejournal.com/content/2/1/14>
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> Press release: The cyber-centipede: From Linnaeus to big data<
> http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-10/pp-tcf102513.php>
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> More on the ISA approach:Toward interoperable bioscience data<
> http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v44/n2/full/ng.1054.html>
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